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Hulk Hogan, left, and Andre the Giant wrestled in the main event at WrestleMania III on Sunday, March 29, 1987, at the Silverdome in Pontiac. It's considered one of the most famous wrestling matches of all-time. Detroit News archives

A young fan makes a goodbye sign for Rowdy Roddy Piper, whose match against Adrian Adonis was billed as Piper's farewell to professional wrestling. He went on to pursue an acting career, but eventually returned to the ring. Detroit News archives

Motown legend Aretha Franklin sings the national anthem at the beginning of WrestleMania III, March 29, 1987. Traffic was so bad getting to the Silverdome, she arrived just on time, with no time for a sound check. David Coates, The Detroit News

One of the more entertaining matches of WrestleMania III was a six-man tag match that featured two behemoths, in King Kong Bundy and Hillbilly Jim, and four little wrestlers. David Coates, Detroit News

While Andre the Giant-Hulk Hogan was the main event, the match between Randy "Macho Man" Savage, left, and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, right, was the most action-packed of the night -- and still is considered one of the greatest wrestling matches of all-time. Courtesy of WWE

Future president of the United States Donald Trump, left, and Bobby Lashley, right, shave the head of World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field.(Photo: Carlos Osorio / Associated Press)

And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes Detroit's iconic wrestling scenes — many of them, of course, conveniently never seen by the referee.

“The Detroit days,” the late Dusty Rhodes said in a 2007 interview, “were wild, man.”

Now, is World Wrestling Entertainment ready to add another chapter to the love story?

There is rampant speculation floating around the Internet that WWE is preparing to bring WresteMania back to Detroit for the first time since 2007. Two wrestling blogs, Wrestlezone.com and ProWrestlingTimes, wrote as much this week.

Both suggest WrestleMania 35, scheduled for spring of 2019, appears headed back to Ford Field, apparently having beaten out other top contenders like Philadelphia and New York.

If correct, this would be the Metro Detroit area’s third WrestleMania, after hosting the third installment at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1987 and WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field in 2007. Those were two of the four highest-attended WrestleManias in history, with No. 3 drawing an alleged 93,173, a record that stood for decades, until 100,000-plus attended No. 32 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in 2016.

The WWE likes to announce such things on its own time frame and hasn’t said a peep about WrestleMania 35. WrestleMania 34, in 2018, is scheduled for the Superdome in New Orleans, and the New Orleans announcement was made in January 2017.

A representative with the Detroit Sports Commission, which crafts and submits proposals to host some of the nation's most-marquee sporting events, told The Detroit News on Monday night that it never submitted a bid for WrestleMania 35, but had targeted other WrestleManias in recent years — including Nos. 33, which took place in Orlando, Fla., in April, and 34. The DSC hasn’t received word from anyone at WWE about possibly hosting No. 35.

An executive at Ford Field didn’t respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon.

Several factors work in Detroit’s favor, particularly the proximity to Canada, making it easier on international travelers, and the booming downtown, with The District Detroit, anchored by new LCA. The arena could provide the infrastructure WWE needs for its peripheral events typically associated with WrestleMania. That also could cause a complication, though, as the Pistons and Red Wings both would need to be on the road for an entire week. WWE would probably need LCA for its Hall-of-Fame induction ceremony Friday (held at Fox Theatre in 2007, but it's since been upgraded to an arena setting), "NXT TakeOver" (Saturday), "Raw" (Monday) and "SmackDown Live" (Tuesday), sandwiched around WrestleMania (Sunday)

The two WrestleManias in Detroit are known for two of the most-memorable scenes in the sports history.

At WrestleMania 3 on March 29, 1987, Hogan, champion of what was then the World Wrestling Federation, bodyslammed the Giant, who, as the story line insisted, weighed some 525 pounds. The sport’s historians, though, will insist the match of the night — and one of the best of all-time — was the marathon, acrobatic display put on by Randy “Macho Man” Savage and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat.

And at WrestleMania 23 on April 1, 2007, where several Detroit Tigers sat ringside, the future president of the United States, Donald Trump, was a big part of the show, even getting to shave WWE owner Vince McMahon’s head following a “Battle of Billionaires” match — they didn't wrestle, but picked wrestlers to represent them — before “Stone Cold” Steve Austin dropped Trump with the “Stone Cold Stunner.”

Detroit also has hosted three installments of the WWE’s “Survivor Series,” all at Joe Louis Arena, in 1991, 1999 and 2005, as well as the “Royal Rumble,” also at the soon-to-be-demolished JLA, in 2009.

“A Detroit crowd is one of the most passionate crowds. They can be your best friend or they can be your worst enemy,” four-time WWE champion Kurt Angle, also a former Olympic gold medalist, told The News earlier this year. “The one thing about them in Detroit is they know talent when they see it. If you prove to them that you’re that good, they’re going to appreciate it. They’re some of the smartest fans in the world.”

The possibility of WrestleMania returning to Detroit could disappoint one hard-core fan, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, who floated the idea in 2015 of bringing the spectacle to Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. WrestleMania rarely is held at outdoor venues, and when it is, it's been in warm-weather locales.